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So now the High Council has everyone, rats and Velda included, where they want them. I’m beginning to wonder if there is a Topsider agent provocateur (or sympathizer) amongst them, now showing his true colors.

Someone or something is trying very hard to get that “trial” to prove a point. It cannot only be to punish the ladies or humiliate b>somebody<b, be he worthy of this interest or worthy of being the …… Well, I again think of “send in the clowns”. So far we have only two. Allgood and Jake. and maybe even our favorite duck. ( not the one with the gun)Just like Aaron to give us a REALLYNASTY weekend. Blessed Be

I wouldn’t go so far as to say I’m meh about it, but the story is definitely taking a turn against what I wanted to see. I really did was to see the Rats finally bare their teeth and get some revenge.-Buuut we’ll just see where this goes, still has me very interested, just wanted a bigger war I suppose.

Glasses: “But, the mob has all the food production services! And they’re the ones that go out on scavenger trips to bring back ammo for our guns! What are we supposed to do if our ammo and food run out?”HC: “You could go topside and scavenge, yourselves.”Glasses: “But, that’s madness!”HC: “Excuse me, did I say ‘could’? I meant ‘will’.”

It does sound like a rogue ai. " the process must continue" and “a conclusion must be reached” are things that a computer-like intelligence would worry about. Illogical beings can leave things unfinished in the middle. A computer program would go “crazy” if told to stop something in the middle.I suspect though with all the posturing that the HC did with the lieutenant, that if the rats did decide to take it into heir own hands and end the trial and free everyone, the HC really couldn’t stop them. The I intimidation that was used on the lieutenant to try to make him toe the line is interesting to say he least.Another rogue AI: there was no pause when their families were mentioned. The HC are mutants. They would have instinctively paused to consider those they love, no matter how they felt about the trial.

I still say the voice of the High Council is like the voice of all the Topsiders’ machines, in a rectangular box with no direction lines going to a loudspeaker or other entity. Maybe Mallard got tired of rats and government, and used the spare brain and topsider tech from studying the brain that became Petey.

Or maybe some Topsiders’ took over the High Council and is playing games with them, might even be Linda’s son.

I’m out of hospital but strained knee badly, and ankle moderately. I just fell sideways. Confined to bed for two months, except for brief excursions for groceries and pharmacy, and a few DLAs. Thanks for good thoughts.

About Endtown

It's the End of Civilization as we know it. A mutagenic plague followed by a global war fought with disintegration weaponry has left much of the Earth a desert of fine powder and what remains of humanity fragmented into humans, animal-like mutants and bloodthirsty monstrosities with lots of teeth. The surface, still teeming with the mutagenic virus, has become the domain of the dreaded Topsiders; well-organized, technologically advanced, and heavily armed un-mutated humans sworn to exterminate mutations of any kind in order to clear the way for the eventual resurgence of a new, genetically clean humanity. Faced with annihilation, mutants and "impure" humans have retreated into the depths of the planet to form communities and hope to win, or at least survive, what may prove to be mankind's final war. Endtown is the continuing story of one of those communities.